Junior and senior students of our school participated in a project “Čakavština va mojen kraju” and in the translation project which has been carried out in our school continuously. Both projects involve English and Croatian lessons.

Translating is both challenging and creative work which requires not only proficient knowledge of a language (English and Croatian), but also a lot of enthusiasm.  This is especially true when talking about translating poetry, and even more so when translating regional poetry which is not written in standard language but in dialect.

This time students translated two popular poems written in Chakavian dialect by Drago Gervais. Students Josipa Mihaljević and Valentina Kolar from class 4D translated the poem “Pod Učkun” whereas their junior colleagues Matea Mijolović and Tara Zahija translated “Tri nonice” under the guidance of their teachers Sanja Bura, Teo Grlica and Tina Udović.  Below you can read original poems written in 1929 and their translations in English and see for yourselves  the good job our young translators did!

 

 

Sanja Bura, August 2023